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'JEW SENTENCED FOR
ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS
IS TO BE RETRIED
Dune Becomes Progressive City
Christians against Jews by the fa-
miliar charge of ritual murder. St.
Simon was a 28-month-old infant
who was drowned near the house
of a Jew, after a prophecy by a
BUCHAREST. — (J. T. A.) — half-demented Fraciscun friar. For
Joseph Blau, who was sentenced to the death of this child, the whole
five months imprisonment 011 the Jewish community paid a frightful
charge that he participated in the toll. They were tortured till they
anti-Jewish excesses in Cluj will "confessed," their property confis-
be granted a new trial.
cated, numbers of them were
Details of how Slim was impli- burned or beheaded, until by the
cated in the events in Cluj during intervention of Pope Sixtus IV
the riots was disclosed by the Ru- the proceedings were investigated
manian newspaper, Dimincatza, at and a hideous conspiracy to ruin
The (louse of Quality and Serveie
the time of his trial before a court the Jews was uncovered.
Manufacturers of
martial. Blau stopped on the street
There is an impressive array of
to talk with a Christian student.
Corner Jefferson at Fairview
Gregonu, with whom he had served "meshumodim" literature — writ-
in the army and who belongs to the ings of Jewish concerts to Chris-
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same football team. While they tianity, wherein these men assail
stood talking a band of students or exhort their former co-religion-
encircled a Jewish passerby near ists.
them, attempting to beat him. Both
The library has also mired a
Blau and Gregoriu intervened sav- unique set of the Talmud, a first
ing the .lewish paserby from the edition of the sixteenth century.
maltreatment of the students. In still in its original binding, as im-
Delivered Anywhere
the meantime a prefect had arrived maculate and well preserved as it
81111 demanded to see Ohio's papers
new book, known as the "goyish
Blau was arrested and prosecuted Talmud" because it has never
1570 HOLBROOK-
On the charge of participation in been in Jewish hands. This was
the riots.
purchased from the Earl of Craw-
Northway 2304
ford Library in England, which
was broken up because of the need
Foo when the Chinese river over- of wall space in the castle which
flowed its banks 500 years ago are housed it. This Talmud was print-
still apparent in the stained paper ed on parchment and bound in
"nururpfused Performance"
and blurred ink. In Hebrew, with vellum by Daniel Bonilacrg, a non-
occasional bits of Persian, and the Jew, one of the most distinguished
appendage of names in Chinese, Italian printers of the fifteenth
Glendale 2824
one finds in them the familiar por- century.
1306 Cherry Street
tions of the Pentateuch that are
There is further a copy of the
read in Hebrew congregations the first Jewish book printed in Amer-
DET11011'
world over on the Sabbath, and ica, a volume of prayers for the
the mind is strangely stirred by Holy Days, published in New York
the thought that these universal for Benjamin S. Judah in 1761,
words of prayer are all that re- and a first edition, bound in red
mains of this lost tribe of wander- morocco, gilded and inlaid in blue
ing Jews whose history and final leather, of the paraphrase and
fate lie buried in the mysterious commentary on the Pentateuch by
heart of the Orient.
Aboab, the liaham of the Spanish
To complete the tale of the long- Jews of Amsterdam, who was the
lost city, Mr. Oko bought the orig- first Jewish author to come to
inal manuscript of a letter written America.
by one Alexander Wylie in 1850
Main Street, Tel Aviv, Palestine
The coney,: library now has
and sent by messenger to the Jews
more than 60 Hebrew incunabula,
ONE of the most ntriking eviden-I sins of being much too modern for of whose sojourn in Kai-Fung-Foo tGree of which are still unique in
Tile Wainscoting, Ceilings, Floors, Fire-
cem of the new Palestine, which Its nurroundings. The streets of the writer had heard. lie asked America—the only copies of Trac-
Tel Aviv are paradise compared to them many questions about their
in arising as a result of the jet, Ish
of the other streets In parts religious beliefs and their com- tate Sanadrim, Anonymous Gram-
places, Sinks and Porches
INCORPORATED
development Inking place there, 1m some
mar,
which
is
the
only incunabu-
of Palestine languishing under munity life, and waited hopefully
the city of Tel Aviv.
lum in its original state with un-
Arab dominance."
for
a
reply
that
never
came.
The
Hardly more than a half dozen
trimmed pages, a Commentary on
16375 HAMILTON AVE., at LOUISE
Tel Aviv is typical of a number of
We Sell Bumper Parts and Repair Bumpers
years ago. most of It was a bleak other progressive cities, which are strange story is further made in- Proverbs. It has also the large-st
stretch of desert sand. Today, beginning to dot the Mlle and val- teresting by the acquisition of the collection of Spinoziana and the
Highland Park
2449 EAST GRAND BLVD., at DUBOIS
that old sand dune Is the site of leys of old Judea. There Is the account of the Rev. Joseph Sam- largest Hebrew musical collection
a modern city of over 45,0110 In- city of Hadar Hammel, another uel Frey, a converted Jew who in the world.
Phone Empire 5782
Longfellow 3426
Residence, Melrose 6947-R
habitants. with modern schools, one built up In the past few years founded the Society for the Pro-
Simultaneously with the li-
electric lights, telephones, attract- by the Zionists. In le slily of motion of Christianity among
Jews, through whose offices the brary's development, Mr. Oko has
ive stores and homes.
homes, It even surcasses T• I Aviv.
been building up a museum of
Tel Aviv is not only the newest Situated on the elope•of Mt rar- collection was brought to London. Jewish ceremonial and art objects.
Aside from the Chinese collec-
but also the most progressive city tnel, where dwelt In Scriptural
His recent trip to Europe resulted
'ion,
Mr.
Oko's
European
pur-
in the Holy land.
days the great prophet Elijah, it
chase include the first Latin edi- in so many interesting acquisitions
After a recent visit to tilts city, presents a Pict Ore of rare charm.
that the resources of the Bern-
tion
of
Josephus'
}Intone
de
An.
The funds raised In America by
I . 0100,1 Josiah f`. Wedgwood, for-
helm Memorial Building, the gift
mer member of the British cabinet, " the United Palestine Appenl has. tiquitate et de Bello Judaico Li- to the college in 1913 of Isaac W.
bri,"
worm-eaten
and stained, with
' .Lectured that "Tel Aviv Is the only been the principal factor to pro-
Bernheim of Louisville, Ky., which
brilliant
ornamental
letterings.
ducing
this
great
moderolration
of
Levant,
and
,Western town In the
There are four other copies of this houses the library and museum,
at present It gives one the mores- the old Jewish homeland.
book in America, one in the Li- are taxed to the full and a new
brary of Congress, another in the building is urgently needed. Lead-
John Pierpont Morgan library, and ing in interest among the art
THE HEBREW UNION COLLEGE HAS ONE
two in private collections. An- treasures of the museum is the
historic ark of the Jew-
ORNAMENTAL WHEEL CUT MIRRORS
OF THE FINEST JEWISH LIBRARIES other rarity previously owned in pricelessly
BEVELED PLATE AND LEADED ART GLASS
this country only by the Jewish ish community of Kai-Fung-Foo
CHIPPING AND SAND BLASTING
Theological Seminary Library in mentioned above. The museum
AUTO GLASS REPLACEMENTS
By ZELDA F. POPKIN.
New York, is an extraordinary runs a wide range from a modern
GLAZING
document issued at Basle before portrait of Albert Einstein by
1474, on social intercourse be- Herman Stroock down to a Per-
of
The library of Hebrew Union prizes, and Joseph Schonthal
2132 BAKER STREET, corner Fourteenth
sian "Ner Tumid" (eternal light).
College at the time of the founding Columbus, Ohio, gave $5,000, with tween Jews and Christians. It re- Asia and Europe have yielded
veals
the story of anti-Semitism in
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of the Ilebrew Union College by other leading Jews making up the
IV. W. HOUGH
Switzerland, where Jews were many beautiful and unique ob-
Isaac M. Wise in 1875, waa a mod- remainder.
In the new collection there were more persecuted in the Middle jects. Among the most interest-
est little accumulation of 168 vol-
ing
of
the
European
finds
brought
umes, mostly the personal dona- exquisitely hand-illuminated texts Ages than any other country of back by Mr. Oko is a "Sholach
2520 TWENTY-FOURTH ST. Phone Lafayette 1707
tions of the founder and near of the Middle Ages, and derelict Europe. Despised and oppressed, Monos" plate used for collection
friends of the school. The present scraps of manuscript, stained by they were nevertheless tolerated of alms for the poor by a congre-
library building, one of the sepa- fire and flood, but still bearing the in Switzerland because of their gation in Poland hundreds of
rate features of the college campus, delicate careful chirography of wealth, but were compelled to years ago, whose surface has been
houses over 68,000 volumes, making famous hands long dead. There wear a badge and live in ghettos. worn away by coins dropped into
up one of the largest and richest were fine Lyonese bindings, gold This interesting publication for- it—an object lesson for posterity.
collections of Judaism and Hebraica and silver clasps, filigree casings, bids Gentiles from eating or drink-
jewel encrustations—a collection to ing with Jews, from bathing with
in the whole world.
r l
The monetary value of the col- nuzzle the layman and delight the them or using their medicines; JEWS SAVE CATHOLIC
forbids Jews to build synagogues,
lection, which has been gathered to- scholar.
A Good Name for 16 Years
Chief in historic importance of open their windows, bear witness
FROM POTTER'S FIELD
gether through the years from all
It Pays to Keep Clean
the corners of the earth, is only su- all the library's possessions is the at trials or be seen abroad during
perficially indicated in the fact that Chinese collection. Seventy-five Easter.
NEW YORK.—(J. T. Ad—The
The whole story of the world- Jewish neighbors of John Augus-
Insurance policies aggregating $1,- written works are all, except for
200,000 protect it aganist loss by two or three tombstones in the mid- wide persecution of the Jews tine, a Catholic, led by harry Nie-
dle
of
China,
that
remains
of
the
through their centuries of wander- berg, a Jewish undertaker of the
fire, vandalism or theft. This huge
sum, in the estimation of experts, Jewish community that one w• r- ing over the face of Europe is told East Side, were responsible for sav-
WILLIAM SANDLER, REUBEN SANDLER, Props.
falls far short of covering the real shipped in Kai-Fung-Foo. Twelve by letters and manuscripts and ing Augustine's body from a pau-
value of many of its priceless hooks of these are scrolls of the law, and printed books gathered by Mr. per's burial in Potters Field.
1025 Montcalm, near Gratiot Avenue
and manuscripts, nor does it give the remainder prayer-books and Oko from all ends of the earth.
Nieberg, when he heard of the in-
Phone Cadillac 4030-4031
more than an inkling of the histori- communal records. All of the lit- A tiny book, initialed in gaudy col- ability of the poor family to bury
cal and archeological importance of erary remains of this colony. with ors, elaborately illustrated, gives their father, obtained by popular
the literary, religious and art ob- the exception of a few objects that a contemporary account of the subscription among the Jewish res- fi
5. jects assembled under the roof of were stolen from an exhibitoin in use of St. Simon of Trient. This idents in the East Side tenement
this theological college library, London many years ago, are now in book, published in Rome in 1475, where Augustine was janitor, suf-
making it one of the world's great the possession of the Hebrew Un- la of exceeding rarity (this is the ficient funds to cover the cost of a
centers of Hebraic literature and ion College. No copy of any of only copy in the United States) funeral and a plot in Calvary Cem-
these Chinese records exists in any and tells of an attempt to inflame etery.
culture.
The Hebrew Union College li- library in Europe or America. They
brary long known and prized a- are for all historical purposes,
AND LEATHER GOODS
mong scholars, leaped into public therefore priceless. To this first
prominence a little over a year ago acquisition there has recently been
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when its librarian, Adolph S. Oko, added the holy ark of the Kai-
returned from Europe with his pur- Fung - Foo community, purchased
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chase of the prayer books, scrolls, by Mr. Oko in this country.
By a strange freak of circum-
and records of a now extinct Ile-
. brew colony that had flourished stance, these manuscripts and oth-
centuries ago in the Chinese city er relics were recovered through
of Kai-Fung-Foo. With the an- the London Society for Conver-
nouncement of the purchase of the sion of the Jews to Christianity,
With Martin Maier • Co. 34 Years .
Chinese treasures came reports of which sent a mission into China in
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the acquisition of other menu- 1852. The Chinese books are
scripts, books, and ceremonial ob- printed upon rice paper, -wadded
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